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From Doringbaai to Port Nolloth, West Coast communities are pushing back against mining and offshore oil and gas expansion. (Liezl Human/Groundup)
ATLANTIC OCEAN

‘No one asked us’: West Coast fishers oppose offshore oil and gas development

From Doringbaai to Port Nolloth, West Coast communities are pushing back against mining and offshore oil and gas expansion. Residents, activists and fishers say consultation…

  • Milan Burnett
9 min read
Members of Extinction Rebellion Red Rebels along with other local Cape Town environmental action groups mobilsed outside Parliament calling for climate action and environmental justice. Cape Town. Photo by David Harrison
CORMAC CULLINAN

SA must end Slapp suits, says environmental lawyer

He is one of six defendants who this week an reached out-of-court settlement with an Australian mining company in a long-running defamation battle

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
Intersectional protest: Members of Extinction Rebellion and Red Rebels, as well as other local Cape Town environmental action groups, mobilised outside parliament last Friday, calling for climate action and environmental justice. (David Harrison/M&G)
AMADIBA

Concourt hears landmark ‘Slapp’ defamation and free speech case

The case isn’t only about environmental lawyers and activists being slapped by ‘rapacious’ miners with a series of defamation lawsuits, but about the rule of law

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
Steadfast: The Xolobeni residents have, for more than a decade and with deadly consequences for them, fought off an Australian company wanting to mine their land. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CENTRE FOR APPLIED LEGAL STUDIES

High court gives Australian mining company a big SLAP(P)

The judge ruled that corporations should not be allowed to use the legal system against citizens and activists

  • Sheree Bega
8 min read